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Where are the Medium, and Fast Chord Lessons?
When learning chords Tony talks about doing them Slow (5 count), then Medium (3 count), then Fast (1 count). Each lesson starts with the Slow (5 count) video. But then I can’t ever find the Medium or the Fast count videos. Where are they?
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Right corner of the video frame, Click settings and you can change the lesson speed.
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Thanks. I had already tried the gear on the lower right side of the picture. It goes from 0.5X to 2.0X, but any setting other than 1.0X comes out garbled. Maybe my internet speed is not good enough.
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It is “garbled” cause it is super processed in order to keep the correct pitch at that slowed down speed. Imagine typical videos of people talking.. if you speed it up they sound like the chipmunks, and if you slow it down then it sounds super low and slowwww.. Since he actually isn’t going through every video and playing at different speeds, they have to be processed this way in order to keep the pitch… so the “garble” is perfectly normal!
Cheers! Happy playing!
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I just wanted to add that I don’t find this chord exercise very useful. It’s OK in the beginning when you are learning the shapes, but you are better served to switch over into chord transitions: instead of practicing forming the chord from hand on your lap, you practice a chord progression. Pick a song you would like to learn and practice that. Start out simple with a 2 or 3 chord progression: C => G => Am … repeat 20 times or 100 times.
Note: I am not saying to practice the actual song (although you may want to do this eventually) the emphasis here is chord transitions. You don’t even have to strum all the time, you can go for a long time just fingering the chords. You do want to strum them at times to make sure you are improving clarity, so I mix silent and musical transitions.
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I agree Pete. Right now I’m doing the lesson on learning your next 6 chords. After I get them down, I plan to practice combinations of the 9 chords I will know over and over, to lock in the muscle memory and improve transitions.
Also, do you know…are any of the songs on the song page easier than others? Is there a better place to start with the songs? Again, I will be using songs mainly as a way to practice chord transitions.
Thanks, Mike
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@mdc I’m not sure which song page you are referring to. Do you mean our daily challenges? There is also the song vault https://hub-lkx8655w8n.membership.io/
I like to use Ultimate Guitar. Sometimes I stumble on some good YT videos.
One progression I practice a lot is Hotel California Am => E7 => G => D => F mini => C => Dm => E7 If you can’t play the F mini yet you can forget about fretting the high E string and only fret the B. It’s still sounds like an F chord.
The other one I already mentioned C => G => Am is actually Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd). Easy chords but the rhythm and speed of the chord changes make it hard to play. I’m just rehearsing the chord changes until I can get fast enough to play it.
Or just google easy 3 chord songs and you’ll get some ideas.
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I still don’t understand the answer here. I’m looking for the same thing; I know how to change the speed with the gear, but what I think is being referred to here is when Tony says “I’m going to talk you through a 5 second, then a 3 second, then a 1 second exercise.” There is never anything more than a five second exercise shown. It’s different than a “sped up” five second; he is referring specifically to a three second one, then a one second, but at regular video speed. Where are those?!
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Just one video that you play back at 1x, 0.5x or 2x
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As Pete said Hotel California is a good one to practice chord progressions on.
I use this song all of the time for chord practice but also change it up. Both strumming and arpeggio style or just use the treble strings for the chords, then do it backwards. then 4 strings , then 5 strings. This exercise has really helped me with improvisations and simple blues style answer and response riff lines that I have incorporated into my every day playing. Doing it backwards really burns it into you memory.
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Yes @jorgemac backwards and forwards is great! The other good thing about this song is that you play one chord per measure. So when your ready to start playing and maybe sing along, it’s easier to do than a lot of other songs, even though there are a few more than 3 chords (6 actually)
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